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Topock, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bullhead City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86436. It stands on Sacramento Wash. The Survey maps it on the Topock quadrangle. 2 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Topock within Mohave County

On record in Topock

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Topock fell from 10 to 2 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201010
20202-8 (-80%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Topock, Arizona. The engine of a local freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California setting out cars
Topock, Arizona. The engine of a local freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California setting out cars
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Topock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,164 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined328 acresLake Havasu Refuges ComplexSACRAMENTO
12 September 1999Natural20 acresLake Havasu Refuges ComplexCATFISH
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictTOPOCK
21 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Havasu Refuges ComplexFLARE
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictCEMENT TIRE
19 August 2004Naturalunder an acreLake Havasu Refuges ComplexPALO VERDE
13 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictMOABI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Topock: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Last MinuteCopperProspect
Self BentonitePumiceProspect
Unnamed Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Topock in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 13 flood, 11 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Flash FloodTopock$500,000Heavy rain in the Sacramento Wash basin produced high flows in the wash, which covered the Oatman-Topock Highway with mud and water and damaged 50 boat slips at the Topock 66 Spa and Resort on the Colorado River.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindTopock$30,000no account filed
August 2013LightningTopock$20,000Lightning knocked out power to 272 customers in Topock.
August 2014FloodTopock$10,000A vehicle was stuck in several feet of water where the Sacramento Wash crosses the Oatman-Topock Highway.
August 2013Flash FloodTopock$5,000Water and mud flowed across the Oatman-Topock Highway at the Sacramento Wash.
September 2011Flash FloodTopock$5,000Mud slid over some roads in Topock.
September 2023Flash FloodTopock$2,000A web camera showed water and mud flowing over Oatman-Topock Highway at the Sacramento Wash.
August 2016FloodTopock$2,000The Sacramento Wash flooded the Oatman Topock Highway.
December 2016FloodTopock$2,000The Sacramento Wash flooded the Oatman Topock Highway.
October 2015FloodTopock$2,000Oatman-Topock Highway was closed at the Sacramento Wash due to flooding.
October 2015FloodTopock$2,000Oatman-Topock Highway was closed due to flooding of the Sacramento Wash.
July 2015FloodTopock$2,000The Sacramento Wash flooded Oatman-Topock Highway.
July 2014Flash FloodTopock$2,000Route 66 near Topock was closed due to flooding.
August 2014Flash FloodTopock$2,000The Oatman-Topock Highway was closed from mile markers 1 to 7 due to flooding.
September 2014FloodTopock$2,000Over a foot of muddy water flowed over the Oatman-Topock Highway at the Sacramento Wash.
August 2023Flash FloodTopock$1,000Oatman-Topock Highway was closed from Tule Dr to I-40 due to flooding.
July 2022Flash FloodTopock$1,000Oatman-Topock Hwy was closed.
September 2022Flash FloodTopock$1,000Oatman Hwy was closed.
November 2019FloodTopock$1,000The Sacramento Wash flooded the Oatman-Topock Highway.
August 2018FloodTopock$1,000Oatman Topock Highway was closed due to flooding of the Sacramento Wash.
October 2018FloodTopock$1,000Oatman Highway was closed at the Sacramento Wash.
October 2018FloodTopock$1,000Oatman Highway was closed due to flooding of the Sacramento Wash.
August 2017Flash FloodTopock$1,000Oatman-Topock Highway was closed due to flooding.
August 2015FloodTopock$1,000The Sacramento Wash flooded the Oatman-Topock Highway.
September 2014FloodTopock$1,000The Oatman-Topock Highway was closed due to flooding at the Sacramento Wash. The first evidence of flooding was a webcam picture at 6 AM, but the actual start time is unknown.
August 2013Flash FloodTopock$1,000Several inches of water and mud flowed across the Oatman-Topock Highway at the Sacramento Wash.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTopock-Near Interstate 40.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTopock-6" diameter tree limbs blown down.
August 1997HailTopock-A Skywarn Spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTopock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mohave County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Catfish Paradise1.8 miles26
Fivemile Landing5.4 miles25
Powell5.8 miles26
Arizona Village10.7 miles25
Franconia11.5 miles26
Desert Hills12.8 miles28
Jops Landing13.6 miles28
Willow Valley14.8 miles22

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TopockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6644483The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24657. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.